Lapsing back into Old Habits.

Having followed an elimination diet and discovered all the things you can eat and not eat, having spent a couple of years eating healthily and not having had a flare-up nor symptoms of your illness, it is soooooo very easy to slide down the slippery road of temptation and bite by bite, eat foods you shouldn’t eat. The typical feeling is “it´s just a treat; just the one won´t do me any harm” and before you know it you are eating huge amounts of foods that are in effect totally poisonous to your body and sooner or later you fall ill again because you have provoked a flare up! The terrible symptoms of bloody stools and weight loss, tiredness and bad moods return, and to resolve all this discomfort you have to be put on cortisone medication again!

Speaking from experience, this can happen and I hope my advice to you about strong will power and how to resist eating what you shouldn´t will not fall on deaf ears. Every time you have a flare up and your intestines ulcerate they DO NOT RECOVER! Having bled and formed scar tissue your intestines cannot regenerate new tissue and eradicate the scars, they stay forever and the less you take care of your intestines the more restricted they will become and this will eventually lead to you having to be operated on, which is totally avoidable! So please stick to your personal diets, and be adventurous with your recipes, just because you cannot eat certain foods, this does not mean your meals have to boring and bland forever, you can add flavour to dishes with many natural alternatives and still remain healthy. Take a look at the links below to Recipes and even Restaurants that cater for your dietary requirements.

LINKS

Recipes:

http://www.cookingforceliacscolitiscrohnsandibs.com/index.php

http://www.the-gluten-free-chef.com/gluten-free-recipes.html

http://www.the-gluten-free-chef.com/gluten-free-food-list.html

Restaurants:

http://www.london-eating.co.uk/occasions/gluten-free.asp

http://www.celiachandbook.com/uk.html

http://www.foodforfriends.com/

http://www.gluten-free-onthego.com/

http://cliffblog.eadv.co.uk/blog/_archives/2008/3/4/3559636.html

In my next post I will be talking about different types of diets and how what we eat makes us who we are. Did you know that if you have Crohn´s you are more likely to suffer from neck and back ache problems?? If you control what you eat you can reduce, or eradicate not only your symptoms from Crohn’s or Colitis, but also the neck and back aches you suffer from.